Planning For Rites And Rituals

This is the indispensable companion for worship planning for the Episcopal Church. Following the three-year Revised Common Lectionary cycle and the church calendar year, this is the all-in-one liturgical season planner for worship. Included are suggestions for each season: rites, blessings, prayers, litanies, pageants, and checklists. Readings, psalms, worship and formation, and hymn suggestions are compiled for each Sunday and Feast day. Presiders and preachers, worship team leaders, musicians, Christian educators, sacristans, and altar guilds will find this to be the perfect resource, putting all the elements for planning worship and seasonal observances in one handy volume.

This is the indispensable companion for worship planning for the Episcopal Church. Following the three-year Revised Common Lectionary cycle and the church calendar year, this is the all-in-one liturgical season planner for worship. Included are suggestions for each season: rites, blessings, prayers, litanies, pageants. Readings, psalms, worship, and formation, and hymn suggestions are compiled for each Sunday and holy day. Presiders and preachers, worship team leaders, musicians, Christian educators, sacristans, and altar guilds will find this to be the perfect resource, putting all the elements for planning worship and seasonal observances in one handy volume.

The indispensable guide to curating resources for worship in the Episcopal Church. Newly revised and reorganized, this guide to liturgical planning in the Episcopal Church is organized around the seasons of the church year and the cycle of Sunday readings in the revised common lectionary. Structured as a series of three volumes—one for each year in the lectionary cycle—Planning for Rites and Rituals includes guidance for making seasonal choices among the church’s authorized worship resources, brief commentary on each Sunday’s readings, guidance in approaching the Prayers of the People, and suggestions for observing commemorations from the church’s calendar. New introductory material suggests approaches to curating liturgical resources. New editor Andrew Wright has applied his years of experience in planning liturgy at parishes across the Episcopal Church and mentoring clergy to this revision. Including contributions from throughout the church, this volume offers clergy and lay liturgical planners a framework for planning throughout the church year.

- All-in-one liturgical season planner for worship - Advent 1 2019 through Christ the King Sunday 2020 Planning for Rites and Rituals is the indispensable companion for worship planning for the Episcopal Church, following the three-year Revised Common Lectionary cycle and the church calendar. Presiders and preachers, worship team leaders, musicians, Christian educators, sacristans, and altar guilds will find this to be the perfect resource, putting all the elements for planning worship and seasonal observances in one handy volume. SEASONAL HELPS for each season of the Christian year: - Introductions and approaches to preparing liturgies for the season - Ideas for creating an environment appropriate to the season - Rites, blessings, prayers, and litanies for the season - Pageants and festivals for notable days - Seasonal checklist WEEKLY HELPS for every Sunday and feast day of the church year: - Introductions to the day: overview, color, preface, collect - Summary of the readings and psalm, including both lectionary tracks - Inclusive intercessions for the Prayers of the People - Ideas for the day for worship and formation - Hymn suggestions for the day from The Hymnal 1982; Wonder, Love, and Praise; and Lift Every Voice and Sing II

"2021-2022 Resource for liturgical planning"--

- All-in-one liturgical season planner for worship - Advent 1 2017 through Christ the King Sunday 2018 Planning for Rites and Rituals supports comprehensive week-by-week planning with content and ideas for liturgy and music, preaching, visuals, and liturgy as formation, all shaped by the Revised Common Lectionary, the Book of Common Prayer, and the church year for the assembly gathered around word and sacrament. A diverse group of close to 40 contributors from across the church has provided: WEEKLY HELPS - Day and reading introductions - Propers: Collect of the day, Scripture overviews (including both Track 1 and 2), Eucharistic preface, color of the season/day - Prayers of the people for each Sunday and major feast day - Exploration of images in the readings - Ideas for approaching the day and its texts in preaching and worship - Ideas for engaging all ages and making connections to faith in daily life - Hymn suggestions - Notes on commemorations of saints for midweek worship or study SEASONAL HELPS - Seasonal introductions - Ideas for deepening children, youth, and adults' engagement with worship and themes for the season - Supplemental seasonal rites